Administrative and Policy Studies - Grants
ACTIVATE: Advancing Computing and Technology Interest and Innovation through Teacher Education
The Collaborative for Evaluation and Assessment Capacity (CEAC) is responsible for the planning, management and oversight of a teacher incoming and exiting survey, a follow-up teacher survey as well as a student engagement survey. CEAC will administer each survey, collect and enter the data, analyze and interpret the data, and finally report the data. The report will be provided to the Principal Investigator at an agreed upon deadline.
Dates: 10/1/2011 - 9/30/2012
Funding Amount: $77763.00
Funder: Carnegie Mellon University
Investigator: Cynthia Tananis
Advancing Computing and Technology Interest and Innovation through Teacher Education (ACTIVATE)
The Collaborative for Evaluation and Assessment Capacity (CEAC) is responsible for the planning, management and oversight of a teacher incoming and exiting survey, a follow-up teacher survey as well as a student engagement survey. CEAC will administer each survey, collect and enter the data, analyze and interpret the data, and finally report the data. The report will be provided to the Principal Investigator at an agreed upon deadline.
Dates: 10/1/2012 - 9/30/2013
Funding Amount: $78186.00
Funder: Carnegie Mellon University
Investigator: Cynthia Tananis
Collaborative for Evaluation and Assessment Capacity (CEAC) Mathematics and Science Partnership (SW PA MSP)
The SW PA MSP implementation plan includes a number of opportunities for professional development. While these activities allow for individualized choices for teachers, the intended focus of the PD will be algebraic reasoning in mathematics and/or biological understanding in science. Tailored to those two foci, evaluation instruments include (1) content knowledge assessments, (2) surveys to indicate impact on teacher practice, and (3) building-based case studies to include classroom observations. These instruments, related to professional development interventions, include pre and post intervention administrations, to be compared, where possible, with a non-participating control group. Analysis of annual scores on the PSSA of students of participating teachers is also conducted annually.
CEAC will be responsible for providing the needed information and assisting with data entry for the MSP to meet its obligations to complete the annual MIS submission requirement.
Dates: 7/1/2011 - 6/30/2012
Funding Amount: $214980.00
Funder: Allegheny Intermediate Unit
Investigator: Cynthia Tananis
Collaborative for Evaluation and Assessment Capacity (CEAC) Mathematics and Science Partnership (SW PA MSP)
The SW PA MSP implementation plan includes a number of oppoortunities for professional development. While these activities allow for individualized choices for teachers, the intended focus of the PD will be algebraic reasoning in mathematics and/or biological understanding in science. Tailored to those two foci, evaluation instruments include (1) content knowledge assessments, (2) surveys to indicate impact on teacher practice, and (3) building-based case studies to include classroom observations. These instruments, related to professional development interventions, include pre and post intervention administrations, to be compared, where possible, with a non-participating control group. Analysis of annual scores on the PSSA of students of participating teachers is also conducted annually.
Dates: 10/1/2012 - 9/30/2013
Funding Amount: $96667.00
Funder: Allegheny Intermediate Unit
Investigator: Cynthia Tananis
Collaborative Research: Scaling Up - An Innovative approach for Attracting Students to Computing
CEAC proposes a primary focus of the evaluation on teachers and their inclusion of project concepts in their instruction. While student outcomes are of importance in any teaching and learning intervention, the primary role of this grant is teacher development. Direct measures of student learning are not anticipated beyond those that may be found through curriculum-embedded assessments that participating teachers may implement. Drawing on individual student data derived from general achievement assessments is typically too diffuse to speak to individual and specific curricular adjustments. Student work, including engagement and their mastery of related content, will, however, be gathered through teacher surveys conducted annually. Teachers will be asked to summarize these data and report on student learning within their classes, related to the focus of this project. Direct student data will not be obtained or analyzed due to the constraints that are imposed by school district policies, institutional review board provisions, and the need for a prioriti informed consent by parents. Teacher summaries of non-identifying student data will suffice as a measure of student impact.
Dates: 6/1/2011 - 8/31/2012
Funding Amount: $125215.00
Funder: Duke University
Investigator: Cynthia Tananis
Collaborative Research: Scaling Up - An Innovative approach for Attracting Students to Computing
CEAC proposes a primary focus of the evaluation on teachers and their inclusion of project concepts in their instruction. While student outcomes are of importance in any teaching and learning intervention, the primary role of this grant is teacher development. Direct measures of student learning are not anticipated beyond those that may be found through curriculum-embedded assessments that participating teachers may implement. Drawing on individual student data derived from general achievement assessments is typically too diffuse to speak to individual and specific curricular adjustments. Student work, including engagement and their mastery of related content, will, however, be gathered through teacher surveys conducted annually.
Dates: 6/1/2011 - 8/31/2012
Funding Amount: $125215.00
Funder: Duke University
Investigator: Cynthia Tananis
Educator/Corporate Collaboration on the Common Core (EC4)
Educator/Corporate Collaboration on the Common Core (EC4) focuses on the mathematical and scientific practices featured in the K-12 Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) as they are utilized in the workplace.
The proposed evaluation activities will gather important information to inform and guide the project. The planned evaluation activities are designed to evaluate the impact of the EC4 program on participants instructional perspectives and practices, as well as provide recommendations for program enhancement.
Dates: 2/1/2013 - 9/30/2013
Funding Amount: $8469.00
Funder: Allegheny Intermediate Unit
Investigator: Cynthia Tananis
Increasing Enrollment Using a Complementary Learning Program
The evaluation activities will gather important information, both baseline and formative, to inform and guide the project. SVC representatives will collect and organize student enrollment, attendance and grade data for each student to allow Pitt to connect the data for each student and track them throughout the years of the project. Pitt will also develop a student survey to administer to participating students.
Dates: 9/1/2009 - 6/30/2014
Funding Amount: $11725.00
Funder: Saint Vincent College
Investigator: Cynthia Tananis
Keystones to Opportunity (Striving Readers) Comprehensive Literacy Initiative
This contract is for the development of the evaluation tools and method for the Pennsylvania Department of Education's Keystones to Opportunity (Striving Readers) Comprehensive Literacy Initiative. Work will include development and coordination of the evaluation of the Initiative statewide.
Dates: 7/1/2012 - 6/30/2013
Funding Amount: $199710.00
Funder: Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13
Investigator: Cynthia Tananis
RTS Zambia
The purpose of "Task 2: Prevent HIV/AIDS through guidance and counseling support services which will enable learners, especially girls, to complete school" is to make school centers of care and support and retain in schools the most vulnerable students; girls and otherwise vulnerable children (OVC). The Creative team will build upon successful programs and institutionalize services at the district and school levels to support "the whole child".
Dates: 3/8/2012 - 3/7/2013
Funding Amount: $64931.00
Funder: Creative Associates International, Inc.
Investigator: John Weidman
RTS Zambia
The purpose of "Task 2: Prevent HIV/AIDS through guidance and counseling support services which will enable learners, especially girls, to complete school" is to make school centers of care and support and retain in schools the most vulnerable students; girls and otherwise vulnerable children (OVC). The Creative team will build upon successful programs and institutionalize services at the district and school levels to support "the whole child".
Dates: 3/8/2012 - 3/7/2013
Funding Amount: $65676.00
Funder: Creative Associates International, Inc.
Investigator: John Weidman
The LEND Center of Pittsburgh
Program Goal: Provide intensive interdisciplinary leadership education for health care and education professionals regarding children and adults with neurodevelopmental disabilities including autism spectrum disorders (ASD).
Dates: 7/1/2012 - 6/30/2013
Funding Amount: $27878.00
Funder: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Investigator: Charlene Trovato
Transition Alice 2 to Alice 3 in Community Colleges
The extension of the work with the Alice programming in language now includes building on the previous work between the Alice group at Carnegie Mellon University and Camden Community College in New Jersey. This work has a number of goals attached, including:
1) Continued expansion of the cadre of community college faculty who are trained in the use of Alice for programming instruction.
2) Development of a mentoring network of community college faculty across regions of the United States.
3) A purposive infusion of Alice as a way of changing the way in which introductory programming is being taught to potential computer science majors, beginning with community college instruction.
Dates: 9/1/2011 - 8/31/2013
Funding Amount: $38194.00
Funder: Carnegie Mellon University
Investigator: Cynthia Tananis
University Community Leaders and Individuals with Disabilities (UCLID)
This project will support interdisciplinary leadership education for health professionals who care for children with neurodevelopmental disabilities.
Dates: 7/1/2011 - 6/30/2012
Funding Amount: $25201.00
Funder: HRSA
Investigator: Charlene Trovato